The ambassador of Venezuela to the Organization of American States (OAS), Samuel Moncada, denounced on Monday that from this international organization – from which Venezuela began its withdrawal process last year – is being planned an intervention against the country, perpetrated by the Government of the United States (USA).
“With half truths and absolute lies, a case is being constructed here, that is the case of an intervention in Venezuela”, said Moncada during his participation in the Permanent Council of the OAS.
In this regard, the Venezuelan diplomat said that the unilateral sanctions imposed by the US Government seek to create the necessary mechanisms to justify an intervention.
“In Venezuela, the State is essential to be able to solve the problems, but you do believe that you can supplant it and that is what the discussion is about today. Your so-called humanitarian crisis, as you define it, consists in the supplanting of the Venezuelan State by your international forces, which will force a humanitarian channel as you have done in Iraq, in Syria”, said Moncada.
In this regard, he emphasized that the unilateral measures – which started in 2015 with the executive order signed by former US President Barack Obama – violate international law and “are punishable or condemned in the international language” of both the United Nations Organization (UN), as well as the OAS itself.
“There is no chance that the US Government could sanction Venezuela since it is not an authority over Venezuela. The unilateral coercive measures, which is their real name, are sanctioned, punished or condemned in the international language. In the United Nations, unilateral coercive measures are a violation of international law”, he said.
“The US believes that they own this place, that they can make coercive measures that violate Article 20 of the OAS Charter that prohibits coercive measures”, he added.
For this reason, he repudiated the money approved in the session by the United States government of 21 million dollars “to help the Venezuelans”, when the Government of the North American nation has imposed a financial and economic blockade against Venezuela, which provokes the freezing of more than one billion dollars, which makes it difficult for the State to purchase medicines and food.
“We have the money, but the US blocks us. I have witnesses here, from multilateral organizations, with which we are working on a national vaccination plan and it has cost us to pay them because the banks do not want to work with Venezuelan money because of threats from the US Government”, he warned.
In this sense, he denounced the pretensions of the Government of the North American nation to implement stronger unilateral measures against Venezuela.
“Mr. Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, has said that stronger measures are coming. They are proposing an oil embargo, to stop Venezuela completely”, he said.
On the other hand, he repudiated that in the Permanent Council of the OAS they are – constantly – dealing with the situation in Venezuela, when there are much greater problems such as the situation in Catatumbo, located northeast of the department of North Santander, Colombia, where there is an armed strike since three weeks ago, which has generated a balance of 100,000 people kidnapped.
“There are 117,000 Colombian nationals living in camps of UNHCR (High Commissioner of the United Nations for Refugees) in Zulia state, due to the Catatumbo conflict”, he said.
Since his arrival in 2015 at the post as OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro has promoted a campaign of aggression and hostility against the National Government, to the point that, in 2016, he pressed for the application of the Inter-American Democratic Charter of the regional organization against Venezuela, an action he could not achieve.
